I'm looing at these a bit more from the sidelines, but there are a couple appealing things about Solaris in general to me, which then the virtualization choice is more of a follow-on... One is DTrace. This is quite a cool tool for diagnosing things. The other is how system crashes, crash logs, and reboots work - it's simply more robust here. ZFS is also extremely appealing. I do hope ZFS can be brought to Linux. I think it's somewhat unfortunate that there is a Linux vs. Solaris battle. I happen to use Linux a lot, but Solaris has become much more appealing lately because of the tools and, at least in my perception, more robust handling in very heavy load and heavy hardware situations. If I were building up my own setup I'd be looking very seriously at it, in fact, I'd probably be using it automatically, if it weren't for the fact that I simply don't know the OS as well/I'm not as comfy with it as I am Linux. Obviously you've got folks like Google and others using commodity stuff, and Linux (and older Linux from what I understand), and working just fine, but it depends on what your situation is. Most folks aren't building their own hardware, and can't be slapping in new boxes all the time.
As for available solutions and cases where you are hosting on someone else's system, I think you have to factor in a lot more. I happen to be a Joyent customer, but based on my experience, I'm not sure I would choose them to host an important system. I would have to look at the accelerators more closely, and understand the support a lot better. My experience is solely based on shared hosting, and that has worked ok for me as I mostly experiment in that space, and want something cost effective, but for a production system I'd be looking at a lot more. EngineYard is very impressive to me, and I'd be looking at it very seriously for Rails apps. Part of that is not just technology and the available solution, but the people and approach. Having met several Engine Yard folks, and knowing who they have on staff, and their dedication to the particular market segment, they are absolutley a top choice IMHO. It likely just depends on your particular needs. On 5/28/07, Jesse Proudman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We've also had some reservations about the performance of Xen under > high server load. HP recently conducted a performance evaluation of > Xen compared to OpenVZ (aka Virtuozzo) and while Solaris obviously > isn't in this report, the performance degradation that Xen faces upon > heavy server load really concerns me [1]. Then there are the Xen > bugs (as well as Virtuozzo bugs) that lead to random reboots of > servers. That kind of problem, even in a load balanced server > environment, really bother me. The burstability, easy duplication, > and other features in Solaris really make it shine for web applications. > > [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-59.pdf > > -- > > Jesse Proudman > Blue Box Group, LLC > > p. +1.800.613.4305 x801 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On May 28, 2007, at 9:46 AM, John Wilger wrote: > > > Although I'm not the OP, I'll take a stab at why Solaris' VPS solution > > interests me over Xen at the moment. > > > > > -- Chris Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
